Training Log Archive: fletch

After yesterday, I thought I might just be able to get out for a run over an hour. Beautiful weather for it and felt really comfortable. Tight hip flexor through the middle sections, but it seemed to ease off again in the last 5km, which was nice, and right knee was a bit sore in the second half. Will need to get more regular with the stretching as I get more regular with running again.

Took a while to get out the door, but it was nice to do most of the run in daylight. Will make motivation during the coming school term easier.

Event: Guildford Grammar NavDash
 

Totally insufficient warm up. Decided to start anyway.

Not my finest effort. Took ages to get into the map, so was very slow to 1, totally stuffed 3 by not seeing the olive green that I had to go around (at least I bothered. I thought once you got there, the rope and the out of bounds sign would stop people going straight through the garden and jumping the fence, but apparently not)
Had a brain fade between 5 and 6, turning too soon and looking in totally the wrong spot, ran past 9 without seeing it, then had a cleaner stretch through to 20, where I just didn't see the sea container until I was next to it, so ended up looking on the wrong side of it first, despite knowing where it was. Add to that totally messing up the last control, and it wasn't my finest effort.

but I felt healthy, so I don't really care.

Pretty much straight from the finish of the long over to re start on the short course.
Understandably much cleaner second time through most of the controls. Still felt pretty good physically. Don't know if this just means I wasn't pushing hard enough, but it was nice to get through half an hour of hard running and still feel good.

Long - Splits

Nearly ran today. Does that count. Did lots of digging and garden stuff instead. Feeling the healthiest I have in over a month.

Running the training with tRicky and collecting some of the remaining tapes at the end (3 of 9 were stolen during the day :( ).

Ran the first option hard to try to compare to tRicky, but happily it turned out he was going to take it easy, so I slowed down after that. Did have a GPS of the start, but stopped it instead of splitting at the first control. Oops.

Morning cruise around hanging tapes for the afternoon training. Had a little wander at times trying to figure out how the map got so wrong.

Was only very gentle, but didn't seem too hard, so may actually be able to start training soon.

Chilly morning jog to try to re-establish some sort of training routine. Still feeling pretty phlegmy and my hip flexor lasted 3-4 km before it started to whinge. If I'm gonna do a rogaine in 5 weeks, I'd better figure out a way to get on top of it. Hope I have a really good description of how it was taped in 2007 somewhere...